Has Charles Llewellyn, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,526 in general payments to Charles Llewellyn, MD across 25 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Charles Llewellyn, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Charles Llewellyn, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Charles Llewellyn, MD

Otolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery · Tacoma, WANPI 1790288280

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,680 of the $2,526 with a category attached, or 66.5%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 51.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,108 and has fallen 59.3% since, to $451 in 2025.

$2,526in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $101.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$1K
AbbVie$295
Axogen$255
Medtronic$222
Acera Surgical, Inc.$169
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$143
plus $149 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$84633%
Food & beverage$1,68067%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Stryker	13	$1,293
AbbVie	2	$295
Axogen	3	$255
Medtronic	2	$222
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$169
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$143
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$135
Immersivetouch, Inc.	1	$13

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

Too few otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery providers in Washingtonto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$6,427

Medicare patients

Services billed

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Fluticasone Propionate	11	$110

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery in Tacoma

Brian MitchellPuyallup$9K
Alexander SobelBellevue$9K
Angelique BerensMarysville$4K
Jacob ThurstonSeattle$3K
Rick GrossYakima$2K
Mark HegewaldFederal Way$2K
Amit BhranySeattle$1K
Jordan MulderOlympia$1K
Jonathan GrantMount Vernon$1K
Mark EmeryFederal Way$1K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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